A review by fuguballoon
I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir by Jan Grue

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

I struggled to get through this book. Although I truly appreciated some passages, the lack of chapter breaks made it hard to find natural stopping points, or to have a sense of the overall pace. (I read the ebook, maybe the print version has breaks.) As a disabled person, I liked the way the author described his life in the present as generally happy and fulfilling. It's definitely not the usual depiction of disabled people as either tragic or inspirational, which was meaningful to me. However, I agree with other reviews that said a lot of the reason why his life is the way it is its because of privilege (racial, economic, etc) that not everyone has. I think they could have been acknowledged better, or at all.
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